Civil Liberties Groups, Tech Firms Back Facebook Against Manhattan DA

Facebook is finding supporters in a fight stemming from court-approved search warrants in 2013 that allowed law enforcement officials to review accounts belonging to users suspected of fraud.

An amicus brief filed Friday by the New York Civil Liberties Union–and supported by the ACLU–argues that the search warrants never should have been approved by the court because they were too broad and “profoundly invasive.”